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Android Technical Test

Important: Algolia will never reuse your work. This assignment is for evaluation purposes only

The goal of this assignment is to create a small e-commerce app using Algolia Search Android Client

Like any other e-commerce app ( Amazon, Bestbuy, etc) the goal is to build an app where the customers can search for products. When clicking on a product, the details should be displayed. It is up to you to decide what details you want to highlight.

Required features of the app

• Search page:
  • search box
  • list of results
  • the number of found items
  • search as you type. Any time the user is typing something, show the new matching results
• Detail page for the results (when selection a product from the result list)

The app doesn't need to have a login page or a user account

Nice to have but not required

• filter products by price / reviews / etc
• unit tests and functional tests
• anything that you think is essential when delivering something that is going to be used by other people

Rules

• Your app needs to use Algolia Search Android Client
• You can use any external dependencies as long as you explain why and how and where you used it

Example datasets

You can find ready to use datasets here: https://github.com/algolia/datasets/tree/master/ecommerce. Create your own Algolia account and add some indexes with those datasets.

Evaluation criteria

• UI design that is OK to look at
• performance: the app should strive to minimize CPU workload, especially on the main thread, and memory footprint (beware of memory leaks!)
• the overall quality of your code
• the architecture of your code
• the instructions and explanations you might want to add in the README

Deliverables

• A GitHub (public) repository to host the source code

Questions

If you need any clarifications, ping us via email: robert@algolia.com.